Bayonne City directories donated by Jody

I don't know if anyone gets this update to the website by email or just you just check the "New Stuff" page but this is big news for Bayonne researchers.  I'm going to check again and see if I have any ancestors from Bayonne.

A few months ago I started to search for blogs about New Jersey, there aren't many.  

I found Family History Research by Jody, "Assembling family trees one leaf at a time.  Concentrating in New Jersey and New York".  

It's a wonderful blog, wait 'til you see it, I hope that I can do that someday. 

         http://familyhistoryresearchbyjody.blogspot.com/


I have meant to contact her a while ago when I read her posts to let her know that I have some things on my website that are for Hudson County. 

I finally just contacted her two days ago to say "Hi', "great blog" and "here's some info". 

I get an email invitation to see a shared file on Dropbox.com that says 

Jody L wants to share "Bayonne City Directories, New Jersey" with you

Jody invited you to a Dropbox shared folder called "Bayonne City Directories, New Jersey" and left you this message:

"Hi Eddi.
Of interest may be the earlier Bayonne, New Jersey city directories. I copied three of them.
-Jody L

(Dropbox is one cloud storage that I've started to use recently.  The free version of course.)


There are three full directories and two partial directories, actually the last one is from the telephone book.

Directories !!  Bayonne directories !!  Hard to find !

Here's the list:

Bayonne city directory 1879-1880
Bayonne city directory 1888-1890
Bayonne city directory 1890-1891
Bayonne city directory 1951 select surnames
Bayonne city directory 1964 select surnames

and here's the new page that I've added.

https://sites.google.com/site/jcgeney/home/hudson-directories/bayonne-directories


Thanks Jody!

1860s Jersey City Volunteer Fire Dept

More free Hudson County genealogy stuff

The Jersey City Volunteer Fire Department's members names,
listed before 1870 when the paid fire department began. 

This list is probably from the late 1860s.

There are over 2000 names listed and searchable on my website. 

https://sites.google.com/site/jcgeney/home/volunteer-fire-dept

from the book "History of Jersey City, N.J." by Alexander McLean, 1895


Ed


You can use your search feature by pressing the Ctrl and F buttons, at the same time.

Hudson Co. graduates

Hudson County school graduate indexes


1876 January Jersey City High,
1877 January Jersey City High,
1880 Stevens Institute,
1884 Hoboken High,
1886 No. 7 Grammar

https://sites.google.com/site/jcgeney/home/yearbooks-at-the-...


They will also be listed under the school name and year on my yearbook links page.
https://sites.google.com/site/jcgeney/home/yearbooks-at-the-...


Ed

Autosomal DNA testing comparison chart

Chart to compare the big 4 genealogy dna testing companies.

http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_testing_comparison_chart

As from the chart and my little experience I would rank them:

1. 23andme
2. FTDNA
3. Ancestry
4. Geno

New Jersey in the Revolutionary War

Revolutionary pensioners 1813
 

Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War

 Compiled service records for the New Jersey Revolutionary War

 This link will take you to the page on my website:

 https://sites.google.com/site/jcgeney/home/nj-revolution

 Ed

One Place: PoorHouse, penitentiary, lunatic asylum, and tuberculosis, smallpox, and isolation hospitals, as well as three cemeteries.

Hudson County's Snake Hill

The complex included an almshouse, penitentiary, lunatic asylum,  tuberculosis, smallpox, and isolation hospitals, as well as three burial grounds.


1820 Poor House
1862 Snake Hill Complex begins
1962 closed
2003 The largest disinterment in U.S. history. 
4,569 bodies transferred. 
About 5,000 may still be buried in the near vicinity. 
(NJ turnpike exit 15X)


Here my page: 
https://sites.google.com/site/jcgeney/home/-hudson-county-snake-hill


Ed

World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel from Hudson County, New Jersey

 

World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces

Personnel from Hudson County, New Jersey

 

Names of 1,602 who died from Hudson County.

 

 

I found these pages on nara.gov.  I extracted the pages for Hudson County from the NJ list of casualties and made a pdf file.

 

There are 12 pages total, 8 pages for just names in alphabetical order.  It doesn't list the cities or dates of death.  This list was produced in 1946.

 

You can view and/or save the pdf.

 

This link will take you to the page on my website:

 https://sites.google.com/site/jcgeney/home/nj-in-wwii

 

 

Ed





3 new links

Finally some new links.

Two for Hudson County and one for Ireland. 

(click the name it will take you to my website page where the link is located.)


David Rumsey's Historical Map Collection   (1800's)

St. Peter's Prep yearbooks (88 books) 1920-2010

Ireland "The census of Elphin 1749" 



Ed

NJ archives death index updated

The archives has added another year to their online death index.

WAS: June 1878- June 1889 
NOW: June 1878-June 1890

It is searchable.   http://www.nj.gov/state/archives/searchdatabases.html

If you find someone and want to order it, they charge ten dollars each.

Ed

What if they moved to ... New York City ???

The majority of immigrants came in through New York.  Some went west, some went to NJ and some stayed in New York.  And some got jobs in NYC and moved back there.

 I've put the link on my website https://sites.google.com/site/jcgeney/home/hudson-directories   page.

 Five boroughs of New York City phone books.


1940 NYC telephone directories 5 (Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Manhattan, Staten Island)   
free from the NY Public Library.

update for my dna @ 23andme

I'm finding no connections.  No, I don't know dna and I've read some posts and I haven't seen anyone else that knows either.  They know dna though, I can't understand what they're talking about but others do.  I just need one break-thru.  There's lots of relatives for me to chose from (995), possible 3rd, 4th or 5th cousins but we're not connecting,  names or places.


I went to a seminar given by a genealogist (K. Brandt) on a few different subjects.  One subject was dna (she also analyses dna results for clients, $1200 bucks).  She stated that the autosomal test should only be used or will work best when you have a in-depth family tree (with an ancestors other children's descendants).  See below:

Without the paper trail of your family history, unscrambling the autosomal results is, well…., probably impossible. So this is not the test to use if you have not tackled a pretty strong 5 generation family trace. (K. Brandt)

It is important to remember this test is for “recent ancestors”; 5 generations back. If you are trying to determine your eligibility for the Society of Charlemagne or Magna Carta, this is not the test for you (unless of course you happen to be a cousin of a society member and just need to prove the last 3-5 generations). (K. Brandt)

• Ancestry's dna is only about 70% correct. (K. Brandt)

Ancestry has lowered their price on the everything dna (autosomal).  I've heard they have about 120,000 dna subscribers. 

23and me is trying to get 1 million, I don't know how many they have. 

FTdna Family Tree DNA has lowered some prices.  Y12-dna (males) $49 but I don't think so.  I did the Y33 and if someone doesn't match almost all the 33 markers, you can forget about it.

23andme has new prices one kit @ $99, additional are 20% off ($79.20 ea), plus shipping ($10 ? ea)


I hope to have an update to this blog.

DNA @ 23andMe

It took about 8 weeks for the results.  I think it went pretty well.  I still have lots of questions. 

You remember that I did the y-33 chromosome on ancestry for $79 now $149, It gave me R1b group, the 33 y-chromosome numbers and gave me possible relatives mostly that connect to me mostly 29 generations ago, until my newly found (tree) relative did the same y-test and matched exactly, three generation match.

OK, so now with 23andme I have a longer paternal group R1b1b2a1a1, my maternal group is T1a1. 
Just being in a group doesn't mean your related. (They have reading material about each group.)  

It also says I'm part neanderthal ! well !! LOL.
I'm 99.9% European, I've never ever even been there.
0.1% asian, I do like chinese food !  No fish heads or chopsticks.

Health report:     This has been suspended by the FDA
How you react to certain drugs. 
If you are a carrier of certain diseases. 
What is your risk of getting diseases. Nothing embarrassing.

Many potential relatives, almost 1000.

Lots of message boards and some people who know some dna stuff, what are they talking about ?

Ancestry composition
Continents, ethnicity, not too specific.



So now I contact and have been getting contacted by 3rd to 5th cousins, 3rd to distant cousin, etc.
So we connect but where there's no separation of paternal or maternal dna (here), I guess it's back to the trees. genealogy, should we track surnames ?, locations ?, what??.  I guess we're related and that helps.  Instead of doing your family tree and finding relatives, you find relatives and see how they are related (to your family tree?)

It's at least three tests in one, y-chromosome, MTdna and autosomal (called relative finder) but there is no division.  Is it the mother or father's side ?, is it the mother's mother family ?, the mother's father family ?  You won't get definite answers here.  Now it did link my wife and her brother immediately and they didn't know of the relation prior.  They did give me a high risk of a disease which I just realized recently.

The thing that stood out most was even though women can't themselves find their y-chromosome, only by using a male (brother, father, uncle), I noticed the results did show my wife's second cousin once removed on her father's side on the list of related and they did get the category pretty close, 2nd to 3rd cousin.  So I'm thinking this is going to help many women in finding their potential paternal connections too.  Her brother's dna had some same results and did find some extra relatives and some less.

Overall I like the 23andme test. It's not what I was expecting, good or bad but for $99 ( + $10? for shipping).  Once they say your results are available to view it's another week for the relative finder. 


Combined shipping fee for multiple tests to the same address.  Be sure to write down the number on the tube, tracking number on the the return prepaid package and make sure the address is to 23andme.

The price was higher last year so hopefully it will stay this low.  Other companies have lowered their prices somewhat since this new price from 23.  One company has y-12 for $39, probably a waste.



Good Luck if you decide to try it, I hope we're related, or not !

RootsTech KC

 

In Person

 

For two days at a new?? LDS center in Kansas City there will be free presentations given on different genealogy topics.  There are multiple per hour, so you must pick which topic that you wish to hear about.  http://genealogykc.com/  Just North and West of Worlds of Fun.  Register online. 




There are also many free video classes online.  Here's one from the KCMO library system.

Midwest Genealogy Library

Genealogy Webinars

Have you ever been to or wanted to go to a genealogy seminar?  Learning how to use certain documents or what you can search in a certain location. 

Genealogy webinars are almost the same thing.  Genealogy webinars are on the internet and you can watch them from home.  There are many on the web and some are free.

There's a site that I've watched many free webinars.  They put the webinars on live, if you want to participate or get a small prize.  You'll have to register in advance for those.

You can also watch the replay usually for free for ten days after it plays live.  (favorite type)
And if you don't watch those you can watch a 15 minute preview and purchase the remainder.  Most webinars are redone live within a year.

http://www.familytreewebinars.com/archived_webinars.php

Make sure you scroll down the page to see the archived webinars.  There are some permanently free webinars there too.

Ed
my website: jcgeney

Scanning

You've probably done this already but this is for those that haven't.  I keep seeing ads, articles and blogs for scanners, especially some mini-flip pal ?? or something.

I used my phone.  I got mine in May 2012 so it's probably old already.

It's a Motorola Droid using Verizon but the part you will need is the CamScanner App.  It's free!
One program to take the photo, crop and save it on your phone or send it wherever you want.

For anyone using iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad), I've also used an app called "Scan Pages" (free) to scan using the device's camera and then another free app "ImageToText" to convert scanned text pages to a text document. The app will then email the text file to the address of your choosing. There may be better iOS apps out there to do this but free is good too!  (from Joe M)


Ed

Online Storage

You need to back up files that you keep on your computer just in case your computer goes down.

I have been using the free personal basic plan on Adrive.com for the past 3-4 years.  I don't put any bank or financial information there but I put photos, genealogy files, some music and etc. 
You get 50 GB for free.

I also have been using Hotmail's Skydrive 7GB free.  Idrive.com has 5 GB free. 
And Google Drive has 5 GB free.  This is where this blog is and my website also.

In a round about way this has a little to do with genealogy and Hudson county, you need to back all that stuff up somewhere.

Ed

Genealogy DNA

A few years ago I did my y-dna (male dna handed from father to son through centuries) from ancestry.com, mostly for the future (it was on sale then, $79 now $149).

Then I found a relative online who I never met, with a slightly different last name, after we compared trees and found new info we are related.  He's my great grandfather's brother's grandson.  He seemed to always be trying to spend money on genealogy, overseas records, subscriptions and not using the sites.  I told him one day if you want you can do the dna swab test and we can check it out.  Well it worked, 33 out of 33 matched.  The testing place never knew we are related.

So lately I've been thinking that I'll do the mtdna, it's the gene that handed down through your mother to her children and it came from her mother and her mother and so on.  But it's too expensive $170, $200 something like that.  I also wanted to have my brother-in-law tested for his male lineage.  Once again too expensive, waiting for a sale.

I saw a sale or two but it was still high priced even on sale.  Then I saw 23andme.com was doing a sale.  They want to boost their online database to one million.  23andme ? sounds familiar, I researched,  they did some dna tests on Finding your Roots on PBS with Henry Louis Gates.  Ok, I'm liking it so far.  I couldn't figure out what they were testing y or mt?  So I sent them an email, they said their test does both.

"Thank you for contacting the 23andMe Team. The 23andMe Personal Genome Service is a genotyping analysis of about one million SNPs resulting in interpreted data for both your genetic ancestry as well as your genetic disease risks and traits for a simple price of $99. The 23andMe Personal Genome Service includes Autosomal DNA, Mitochondrial DNA, and Y-chromosome (Males Only). "

Their website also says they can tell about some inherited diseases and allergies to prescription drugs.

I ordered three tests.  One for me, my wife and my brother-in-law.
I've just mailed back my test kit.  It is a spit test rather than a swab test.  I will compare it to my early test and let you know, they said results should be 4-6 weeks. Postage is additional and about $10 for one or multiple kits shipped to the same address (addressed and prepaid return shipping).

Just thought I'd let you know in case you're interested.

Ed

New Jersey—1915 State Census

The New Jersey 1915 State Census is listed under current projects on Familysearch's indexing page.
But apparently it is not ready yet to be indexed.  I will keep you updated.  If I had to guess portions will be indexed and no images will be available.

About This Project (from familysearch)

State censuses were taken in New Jersey every ten years, between the dates of the federal census, from 1855 until 1915. This project is to create an index for the 1915 state census. The census contains information about families and individuals residing in New Jersey on June 1, 1915. In addition to standard census information, such as the names and genders of individuals in family groups, this census also included the month and year of birth, along with the age of each person recorded in the census. This records collection includes all counties and is organized by county.

Ed

Jersey City Cemetery

If you've already checked out findagrave and/or the website for St. Peter's, Holy Name and Holy Cross cemeteries.  There is Jersey City/ Harsimus cemetery.  It opened around 1829.  You can ask for help right on their facebook page LINK , just post a message.  If you don't have a facebook page just go to their website and send them an email to see if your ancestor is buried there.

Tithe books and Soldier's wills

Two new Ireland links:

1823-1837 Tithe books and

Soldier's wills 1914-1917

 

my website's Ireland page

 

 

 

Translations

Family Genealogists might find records that need translating, google has a translation page. 

http://translate.google.com

 

When you go to the link either type in the box to see if it detects the language or pick the language from the drop down list right above the box. (From: Detect language)

 

 

 

There also an app for mobile phones.   http://www.google.com/mobile/translate

 

 

 

 



NJ in WWII

World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942   for men ages 45-64 born between 1877 to 1897.  
World War II Army Enlistment Records

my WWII page here

 

 

 

New Jersey in World War I

Just added free WWI draft cards

another link for Hudson County casualties in WWI and

NJ in WWI page

 



New Jersey Counties Naturalization Records

New Jersey Counties Naturalization Records
where to search and where to order

 

here's my link here

 

 

 

 

 

Hudson County Probate Records

Hudson County Probate Records
(wills and more)

click here for my website